Zhenya: Street Musician Near Kremlin

Zhenya was taking a cigarette break when I saw him with his red guitar in a side street a stone’s throw from Red Square. He said he was born in Ukraine and then moved to a small town in Rostov oblast, near the Ukraine border. A welder, Zhenya says people in Moscow put too much emphasis on money and material goods and that society has become more divided as a result. He said he prefers small town life.